ABN (hip Hop Duo)
ABN or ASSHOLES BY NATURE is an American hip hop duo, composed of
Houston,
Texas -based rappers Trae and
Z-Ro . They have so far
released two studio albums, Assholes by Nature (2003) and It Is What
It Is (2008). CONTENTS * 1 History * 2 Discography * 2.1 Studio albums * 3 References
* 4 External links HISTORYThe duo is a collaboration between
Z-Ro and Trae, both of whom are
well established solo recording artists within Texas' underground hip
hop scene. Their first collaboration was on Z-Ro's debut album Look
What You Did to Me (1998), with them regularly appearing on each
other's albums thereafter.
Z-Ro and Trae grew apart in subsequent
years and parted ways altogether after their last (and so far final)
album in 2008 due to personal and creative differences. DISCOGRAPHYABN's first release was a double CD titled Assholes by Nature
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Discogs
DISCOGS, short for discographies , is a website and crowdsourced
database of information about audio recordings , including commercial
releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The
DiscogsDiscogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name DISCOGS.COM,
are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are located in
Portland, OregonPortland, Oregon ,
US. While the site lists releases in all genres and on all formats, it
is especially known as the largest online database of electronic music
releases, and of releases on vinyl media.
DiscogsDiscogs currently contains
over 8 million releases, by nearly 4.9 million artists, across over 1
million labels, contributed from nearly 346,000 contributor user
accounts—with these figures constantly growing as users continually
add previously unlisted releases to the site over time
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AllMusic
ALLMUSIC (previously known as ALL MUSIC GUIDE or AMG) is an online
music guide. The largest music database on the web, it catalogs more
than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks. It was launched in
1991, predating the
World Wide WebWorld Wide Web . CONTENTS* 1 History * 1.1 Guide series * 2 Reception
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links HISTORY
AllMusic was launched as All Music Guide by
Michael Erlewine , an
astrologer and musician. He founded a company that developed software
for astrology in 1977, and in the early '90s, as CDs became the
prevalent format for recorded music, he began to research using meta
data to create a music guide. Dissatisfied with the inadequate
labeling on CDs, his goal was to create an open access database that
included every recording "since
Enrico CarusoEnrico Caruso gave the industry its
first big boost"
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Billboard (magazine)
BILLBOARD (stylized as BILLBOARD) is an American entertainment media
brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a
division of
Eldridge Industries . It publishes pieces involving news,
video, opinion, reviews, events, and style. It is also known for its
music charts , including the
Billboard Hot 100Billboard Hot 100 and
Billboard 200Billboard 200 ,
tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It
also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV
shows. Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James
Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later
acquired Hennegen's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment
industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows. It also
created a mail service for travelling entertainers
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AllMusic
ALLMUSIC (previously known as ALL MUSIC GUIDE or AMG) is an online
music guide. The largest music database on the web, it catalogs more
than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks. It was launched in
1991, predating the
World Wide WebWorld Wide Web . CONTENTS* 1 History * 1.1 Guide series * 2 Reception
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links HISTORY
AllMusic was launched as All Music Guide by
Michael Erlewine , an
astrologer and musician. He founded a company that developed software
for astrology in 1977, and in the early '90s, as CDs became the
prevalent format for recorded music, he began to research using meta
data to create a music guide. Dissatisfied with the inadequate
labeling on CDs, his goal was to create an open access database that
included every recording "since
Enrico CarusoEnrico Caruso gave the industry its
first big boost"
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Houston
HOUSTON (/ˈhjuːstən/ ( listen ) HYOO-stən ) is the most populous
city in the
U.S. state of
TexasTexas and the fourth-most populous city in
the
United States , with a census-estimated 2016 population of 2.303
million within a land area of 599.59 square miles (1,552.9 km2). It
is the largest city in the Southern United States, and the seat of
Harris County . Located in Southeast
TexasTexas near the
Gulf of MexicoGulf of Mexico ,
it is the principal city of the
Greater Houston metro area, which is
the fifth-most populated MSA in the United States.
HoustonHouston was founded on August 30, 1836, near the banks of Buffalo
Bayou (now known as Allen\'s Landing ) and incorporated as a city on
June 5, 1837
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King Of Tha Ghetto
A GHETTO is a part of a city in which members of a minority group
live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure.
The term was originally used in
VeniceVenice to describe the part of the
city to which
JewsJews were restricted and segregated but has since been
applied in various contexts
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MusicBrainz
MUSICBRAINZ is a project that aims to create an open data music
database that is similar to the freedb project.
MusicBrainzMusicBrainz was
founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc
Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio
CD (compact disc ) information on the Internet.
MusicBrainzMusicBrainz has
expanded its goals to reach beyond a compact disc metadata (this is
information about the performers, artists, songwriters, etc.)
storehouse to become a structured open online database for music.
MusicBrainzMusicBrainz captures information about artists, their recorded works,
and the relationships between them. Recorded works entries capture at
a minimum the album title, track titles, and the length of each track.
These entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community
written style guidelines
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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS is a chart published by Billboard magazine
that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States
and is compiled by
Nielsen SoundScan . The name of the chart was
changed from Top R&B
AlbumsAlbums in 1999. The chart debuted in the magazine
as Hot R from 1969-1978 they were identified as Soul charts. The US
Top R&B/Hip-Hop
AlbumsAlbums tracks the albums of quiet storm , urban
contemporary , soul music , R"> * Whitburn, Joel (2000). Top R&B Albums: 1965-1998. Record Research.
ISBN 978-0-89820-134-5
* "Billboard R&B Charts Get Updated Names". Billboard
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Houston Press
The HOUSTON PRESS is an alternative weekly newspaper published in
HoustonHouston ,
TexasTexas ,
United StatesUnited States . It is headquartered in the Midtown
area. The paper is supported entirely by advertising revenue and is free to
readers. The newspaper reports a monthly readership of more than
200,000 print readers and 1.6 million online users. The Press can be
found in restaurants, coffee houses, and local retail stores. New
weekly editions are distributed on Thursdays. The weekly
HoustonHouston Press was founded in 1989. Chris Hearne (founder
of Austin's Third Coast Magazine) and Kirk Cypel (a Vice President of
a Houston-based investment group) conceived of this news and
entertainment weekly after rejecting a business plan to relaunch Texas
Business Magazine. Hearne was the paper's first publisher and Cypel
served as the organization's business advisor
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Billboard 200
The BILLBOARD 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular
music albums and EPs in the
United StatesUnited States . It is published weekly by
Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of
an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be
remembered by its "number ones ", those of their albums that
outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales (both at retail and digital ) of
albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was originally
Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but
since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide with the
Global Release Date of the music industry ) and ends on Thursday. A
new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated
to the Saturday of the following week. The chart's streaming schedule
is also tracked from Friday to Thursday
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